Since finding him asleep in the hallway, she had persuaded him to allow her to look after his key, so was able to let herself in and get comfortable while she waited for him to return from the inn. She was so comfortable, in fact, that she slept soundly, not waking until the clock in the square s...
However, on leaving the hotel she found she could go no further than the front steps. The royal party had come to a halt in the square, and Ferdinand’s men had set about cordoning off the area so that they might walk safely among their people for a time. The crowd had already doubled in size as w...
Having Birgit Lange on board was going to be a constant source of irritation and distraction, not to mention emotional torture for Hans. Nothing and no one else had ever put him off his food. Gretel was here to work, and the last things she needed were the screeching presence of Hans’s ex and her...